The film begins with a title shot of Expo 67, displaying the dates April 28 - October 27. Then there's a shot of a courtyard of flags, and Buckminster Fuller's big dome, the Montreal Biosphere. It looks like we might be at the ticket entrance to the fair. In short order, we're aboard the 'monorail' (actually called the minirail; it's more like an open air train of golf carts frankly) which provides a nice view of all the pavilions. The architecture is pretty wild and futuristic for 1967; it still holds up today! I didn't realize the train also goes directly through the Biosphere. Once the train exits the Biosphere, we're on foot and we begin to explore inside the pavilions.

There's also footage from the Expo Express train, that connected the fair site to a five station network. Midway through the film now, there's some very bright coloured sculpture. It's a beautiful day, and the colours look remarkably true. Then there's a figure skating performance on what looks like the smallest skating rink in the world! Soon, evening falls on the fair, and there are a few more views to capture before packing it in for the day.

The footage resumes, presumably on the next day, and in addition to pavilions and sculptures, now there are elephant and camel rides. There's a brief shot of a dual headlight Harvester International Brinks truck, and then there's a boat show, with motor boats, and even a tall ship.

Footage continues with more pavilions, crowds, and a preview of Expo 70, which takes place in Osaka, Japan. At the end of the film, there's a full military flag ceremony, where the Canadian flag is lowered and marches away (did they do this every day?). The end! Footage lasts nearly 30 minutes, and it holds up quite well. My parents were there for their honeymoon, so I finally get to see what I missed in 67!

I went to Expo 67 several times that summer and it was wonderful in many, many ways. There were crowds of people from all over the world, there was plenty of photography, sculpture, artwork of all kinds wherever you went, there was beer, wine and food from dozens and dozens of countries, and except for a few places there was very little waiting. There was a huge midway apart from the international buildings, there were free concerts day and night throughout the fair- I saw Simon and Garfunkel- plenty of jugglers, tightrope walkers, acrobats, Montreal girls in miniskirts wherever you looked and dances every night. There were a great many fountains where people congregated- it was set on islands in the middle of the St Lawrence so it didn't get too hot, and if it did get hot you just relaxed by a fountain.

I dunno, watching this, it looks like this fair was dull dull dull, (but what do I know, the Wikipedia article shows that this fair was one of the most successful ever). It appears to me that this doesnt have a WHOLE lot of originality, seemed to be in the middle of nowhere, and looked bland. But the film is actually quite nice to look at, and, because there's not a lot of world fair footage past oh, 1950, is nice to see.